The Miami-Dade County Fair opened its more than 80 rides and more than 150 food stands on Thursday afternoon at Tamiami Park with a “Retro Rewind” theme.

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday that the state was making a $2 million investment in cancer research and said questions about the 2026 election should be left to the “imagination.”

Florida Power & Light crews were on standby to respond to Hurricane Milton’s outages.

Two fatal crashes prompted southbound closures on the Florida Turnpike on Saturday night and early Sunday morning in Miami-Dade County. Florida Highway Patrol troopers and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded.

Florida Highway Patrol troopers closed the southbound Turnpike extension at Southwest Eight Street on Friday morning in Miami-Dade County.

A surveillance video helped police officers uncover a fraud scheme that involved at least four people in Miami-Dade County, according to police.

A recent dispute among roommates over a stolen credit card prompted a confrontation that devolved into arrests for kidnapping and drug possession in Miami-Dade County, according to police.

Benjamín León, Jr., the founder and chairman of Leon Medical Centers, announced a donation of $10 million to build a $40 million home for Florida International University’s CasaCuba cultural and academic center.

Detectives are searching for a stalker who has been targeting students at Florida International University’s Modesto A. Maidique Campus in Miami-Dade County.

A 25-year-old Hialeah man was in federal custody for robbing three banks in three months in Miami-Dade County, the FBI announced on Thursday when the investigation was still ongoing.

Junixsy Zambrana has an arrest record as an adult in Miami-Dade County that goes back nearly a decade. She has a long history of fraudulent use of personal identification, and she is in trouble again.

Detectives were investigating the source of the emails and calls that prompted false alarms on Tuesday at university and college campuses in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and St. Lucy counties.

Five years ago, Wednesday, a 174-foot-long pedestrian bridge that was under construction collapsed after a section splintered just outside Florida International University’s main campus in Miami-Dade.

A fugitive stabbed a man, stole a car from a woman in Homestead, took police officers on a pursuit northbound on the Florida Turnpike, and crashed at Florida International University on Sunday in Miami-Dade County, police said.

Detectives warned the Florida International University community about an increased risk of becoming a sextortion victim.

Gina and Orlando Duran marked the fourth anniversary of their 18-year-old daughter Alexa’s death on Wednesday with a tribute at Florida International University.

Florida International University’s interim president Ken Jessell was at his first board of trustees meeting on Thursday morning after he was appointed back in January.

An investigator reported the former president of Florida International University admitted to asking a woman under his direct supervision if “companionship was of interest” to her in October, but she said that what he actually asked was if she wanted to become his “lover.” She said he later started to call her a “princess” and the situation escalated to her crying about her work environment.

Orlando Gutierrez-Boronat is among the activists in South Florida who are showing solidarity with the Cubans who plan to protest on Monday.

Two men, including the brother of an NFL player, were both booked at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Wednesday and appeared in front of a Miami-Dade County judge on Thursday to face charges for a murder that happened more than four years ago in Sweetwater.

A puppy returned home after a woman stole it from a veterinarian’s office on Tuesday in Miami-Dade County.

Derek Mann said one moment he saw a man looking at products in the Miami Gun Show and the next he was dying on Saturday in Miami-Dade County’s University Park neighborhood.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Fla. – Munilla Construction Management was one of the companies behind the deadly Florida International University’s pedestrian bridge collapse. Daniel Munilla, the president of the family-owned company, said he wrestles with what could have been done differently to prevent the March 15, 2018 tragedy. “We wish we would have done more.”Munilla said they were aware of a crack in the structure that January. We were assured by a world-renowned designer that it wasn’t a safety concern,” Munilla said. Now with several major projects ongoing, the company is adding safety policies as it works to earn community trust.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – After three men broke into a home on Monday in Miami-Dade County, Jorge Hernandez fired a shotgun inside, according to the Miami-Dade Police Department. A woman was shot in the arm and a man was shot in the abdomen. The woman who was injured told police officers she knows Hernandez, 38, a convicted felon who was on probation during the shooting, Garcia, 31, and Murado, 37. Officers found Hernandez had about half a gram of what appeared to be crack cocaine, and Murado had about a gram of cocaine, according to Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department records. On Tuesday, Hernandez, Garcia, and Murado were facing charges of burglary in an occupied dwelling and attempted murder.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Consumer fireworks injured a child and a man on Thursday night at a home in Miami-Dade County, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue. Fire Rescue personnel responded to the home at Southwest 105th Court and Southwest 21st Lane near Tamiami Park. Fire Rescue personnel took the child and the man from the University Park neighborhood to the Kendall Regional Hospital, which has a burn center. Safety tips

Aside from arresting Edward Walker, 46, in Miami-Dade, agents also arrested Richard Walker and Tiphani Pereira for sex trafficking in Broward County. According to FBI Special Agent Joseph Oliver, an undercover officer responded to an ad on the Mega Personals site. The officer paid $240 to meet a sex trafficking victim for 30 minutes at the Crossland Economy Studios in Fort Lauderdale, according to the complaint. Edward Walker, who is not related to the Richard Walker case in Broward County, faces a federal charge of sex trafficking a minor or by force, fraud or coercion. Records show Richard Walker also faces a charge of false statements to a federal officer charge after denying his involvement despite the evidence.